Jigsaw Guilt by Jeffrey Ashford

I listened to this OCTOBER 2018
I like listening to detective stories, especially when I'm ironing...

A missing person enquiry turns into a murder enquiry, which turns into a murder of a person other than the missing one! sounds complicated but it wasn't really, but very entertaining to listen to
Good plot twists and turns.

Cold Relations by Gerald Hammond

I listened to this October 2018
An interesting thriller set in Scotland.  Family intrigue, dog napping, hunting, shooting, and a relative in the freezer...

The Cunning Man by Celia Rees

I listened to this October 2018

Set in Pembrokeshire! a modern family rent a cottage by the sea. Wreckers, ghosts, dirty dealing.  I think this might be a cross-over /young adult book.
Very enjoyable listen

The Accident by Linwood Barclay

I read this Summer of 2018

I like Linwood Barclay books, they are easy to read and not so formulaic as others.  This one says ' Glen Garbers  has spiraled out of control.  His wife's car has been found at the scene of a drink - driving accident which took three lives. Not only is she dead, but it appears she was the cause of the accident.
The plot thickens...more deaths, prescription drugs, fake handbags, nothing is quite what it seems

The Midnight Line by Lee Child

I read this Summer 2018
I like to read a light book sometimes...one where you don't have to concentrate.
This is another Jack Reacher novel in the same vein as all the others . This one involves a wounded veteren  and prescription drug dealing.

The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

I read this October 2018 for the Pater Reading Group the new Book Club at the Library.

If this book has a plot, well I missed it! it is set in 1937 and 1938 , so the interwar years, just before the the start of WWII.  It centres around a family the Cazalets.  I just couldn't get to grips with it and will not be reading any more in the series .

A Man Called Ove By Fredrik Backman

I read this in 2018 with the Page Turners Book Club.

A grumpy old man and his new inapt neighbours build up a mutually beneficial relationship

Kiling Floor By Lee Child

I read this in 2018

A typical Lee Child, Jack Reacher! A fight, a woman, sex, injustice, putting the world to rights and moving on....

One of Our Thursdays is Missing by JasperFforde

I read this in 2018

Another of Jasper Fforde, funny surreal masterpieces.  This one is from The Thursday Next series.

There is genre war brewing in Book World and only Literary detective Thursday Next can avert it... So cleverly written , a whole world within each book... characters moving around from book to book.

Brilliant stuff..

The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde

I read this in 2018

A book form the Nursery Crime series....

It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and the shattered, tuxedo clad corpse of Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty II has been found lying beneath a wall in a shabby part of town.

I love this sort of book, Magic Realism
A detective story with an interweaving of humour and nursery rhyme references

SS-GB by Len Deighton

I read this in 2018

Len Deighton is author of such books as the Ipcress File etc. I haven't read any of his before and read this because I had missed the BBC TV series.

The plot is about Britain if the Nazis had won WWII.  It starts : In Feb 1941 British command has surrendered to the Nazis, Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall.

An occupied Britain , a murder, Scotland Yard, espionage....a cracking mix, a good story line, I did find some of the dialogue a little stilted. But a good enjoyable read.

Atomised by Michel Houellebecq

I reread this in early 2018

I enjoyed this much better the second time, and I have also now seen the film.  The plot is about 2 half-brothers bought up separately, who are 2 very different adults.  Michel is a thinker with not much sex life to talk about, while his brther Bruno is the opposite.  Makes for an interesting read, and a good film.

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

I read this in Janaury 2018 for the Page Turner's book club.

Great book all about quantum physics, multi universes (The Multiverse) mutliple scernios palyed out over and over, I can't explain it but I loved it!

The Power by Naomi Alderman

I read this February 2018
I wanted to read this because the author was mentored by Margaret Attwood
Its a sort of Handmaid's Tale in reverse, a world where women have the power to create electricty through their hands...
fascinating read

The Little Prince by Antione de Saint- Eva

I read this in Januaury 2018
I had heard of it beofre of course, but never read it. I recommend this book, so many good allegories - timeless.

Music and Silence by Rose Tremain

I read this in December 2017 for the Lawshall book Club

OMG - I've only read one RT before and didn't like it - sorry but I felt the same about this one...

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

I read (or rather listened to this for the Page Turner's book club.
Very old fashioned now! but sometimes it's good to see how un PC the world was only a short while ago.

Sometimes I lie by Alice Feeney

I read this 2017
Apparently it might be made into a mini series for TV. It certainly reads like it .  Lots of chararcters, lots of plot twists.
Enjoyable

A Room Full Of Bones by Elly Griffiths

I read this in November 2017 for Lawshall book Club
The first EG novel I've read one of the Ruth Galloway novels. Very like Katy Reichs novels....
Archeology, murders, crime and decetives... All make for a good easy read

Dying Fall by Elly Grffiths

I read this in January 2018
I have read a few of hers and they are very like Katy Reichs novels....
Archeology, murders, crime and decetives... All make for a good easy read

Where Am I Now - When I Need Me? by George Axelrod

I read this January 2018 well I actually re read it then.  I had previously read this in the late 70s or early 80s, now it seems very much a book of the 70s...
Written as a suicide note , Harvey Bernstein a failed novelist, poet and now a creative writing tutor whose wife runs off with his friend. Harvey then hooks up with Cathy Lewis Lovibond Lombard Lamont (chose one) an eccentric young woman who wants to write a best selling novel.  The couple move to LA Lots of angest, humour and farce.
Enjoyable read

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Attwood

I re-read this, in Decmeber 2017, after seeing he TV adaptation.  I enjoyed it more this time than the first time I read it. Knowing what was going to happen did not detract at all from the re reading.  In fact I understood it all more. 
Set in a Dystopian Gilead, there is a shortage of children and the human race faces extinction if action is not taken.  The authorities use women( Handmaids) who have previously had a successful pregnancy and    use them to breed.  Only high ranking men are allowed to fertilise the woman.  I love this book, for all it's doom and gloom.  Offred (Of Fred) is a feisty woman, who remembers the freedom of her previous life and rebels against this one.
Highly recommended